Beano Boy wrote: What do you think this Pioneer Lady is collecting,______ and Y ?

Pretty famous pic The Buffalo chip LadyThe Lady, Ada McColl, photo taken in 1893 by her mother Polly, also Features Ada´s brother Burt. She is collecting "chips", most commonly dried cowpats but in this pic it´s buffalopats. Why? For cooking and heating...in both cases to produce heat.

Like the colourful stick of rock referred to earlier,there is much more there than meets the eye.

KGV,you are correct.Paul, you are correct too,and in more ways than one.

The famous picture, staged by Ada McCall in 1893 does show what was no longer there at that time. "That sounds crazy BB"Well you see the Buffalo Herds were long gone between,1850`s-1870`s and the vast Prairie`s now empty of so called, presumed hostile Indians, and the land given off free to those who ran the race along the designated Land Rush Strips, and who drove home their wooden stake markers. Ada McCall was showing what things out West were like in former times. Pictures using her camera often took 6 minutes to take,and the subjects needed to keep still. No smiles,just plain faces,but why then is Ada`s mouth open the way it is? She often recalled later," I was directing my Mother on how to operate the camera." The picture that I placed was edited for book release much later in 1903. BB

So it seems such revealing is down to me alone. Sorry Graeme,for such a long wait.

There is much that I have written of this resounding day and of those who stood and of those that fell and I guess there is much more I could write but there is little time left and not enough room here to ponder it all down.

I could not find a photograph of this famous person,however this is he painted in splendid uniform worn at Waterloo. Yes most modelers have him detailed wrong. including i.

Most have him looking like this,but this uniform he wore in 1812.

His uniform worn upon a fateful day of battle.

The woollen cap worn over the stump and his wooden right leg one of many fitted onto the stirrup seen on the right of the picture below.

They belonged to Alfred Henry Pajent ___________ He lost his leg at WATERLOO 1815He was the Field Marshal, Earl of Uxbridge. In command of the entire British Cavalry.It was he that ordered the cavalry attack on the massed columns of French moving up past La Haye Sainte farm complex.

Lord Uxbridge was at Wellingtons side during the closing stages of the battle,after the general advance against the French had been given.

In 1816 he became The Marquess of Anglesey.

Uxbridge was hit on right knee by canister shot,after the missile had passed over the neck of Wellingtons horse Copenhagen.

Peter,heres a lot more information upon the headgear worn ,by Field Marshal,Lt Gen The Earl Uxbridge,at Waterloo.

Above Wellinton & Uxbridge,in gold ringed shako! Of course paintings are not a reliable sourse so one needs to dig a little bit deeper where history is concerned.

The Shako is nearly correct,but no feathered plumb was present at Waterloo.

Lets go direct to the source of impeccable reliability the family in question.

The present Lord of Anglesey at his Stately Home,and Uxbridge can be seen ordering the cavalry charge on the right of the painting and the Gold Ringed Shako is most visible is it not? This painting commissioned by Lord Uxbridge, The Earl of Anglesey, and authorised by him as being correct.

His leg and Shako, is the photograph from the British National Trust . So there you find confirmation! It is on perminant display at the stately home of the present Lord of Anglesey, now part of the British National Trust . In the same picture the remains of his reinforced trouser leggings worn upon the day.

Above just a glimmer shown of the Plume !

One must remember Lords and Field Marshals wore what they wanted on their heads be it Crowns of State or a fine gold ringed shako! "He sure was a Dandy! "

After all he being second only to Wellington,he wanted to recognised.He was in full Command of all the British Cavalry.

The Perry Brothers got it right,but the leopard skin horse furniture is wrong.

Lt Gen The Earl of Uxbridge. WaterlooW Britains Model Soldiers

Britains is a Company that pays Researches lots of cash to get it right. After all people are putting their hands in their pockets to spend lots of cash.

I kinda like free Marvin,and I must freely admit I modelled that Dandy fellow who had his leg right shot away,and it was one of my first ever conversions, and yes he has the Bearskin Busby! Out of pure sentiment it will always remain a charm and oddly wrong, for I see no real great impending need for change. So at Quatre Bras & Waterloo my Lord Uxbridge will continue to wear that Fur Tea Cosy Hat. It has been very lucky for him that hat ,because in spite of surviving my altogether rough handing of him, he has most certainly retained both his legs. BB

With the cost of ammo casings becoming very expensive for rifles ,because of him the governments of the world had to put not only their heads together, but copper loads of chattering brass too. An easy one but a deadly one to include. BB